387 Episodes

  1. Jessica Fostekew on Boudica

    Published: 2/10/2025
  2. Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs

    Published: 2/3/2025
  3. Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

    Published: 1/27/2025
  4. Lauren Cuthbertson on Margot Fonteyn

    Published: 1/20/2025
  5. Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore

    Published: 1/13/2025
  6. Doug Allan on Captain Jacques Cousteau

    Published: 1/6/2025
  7. Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu

    Published: 9/23/2024
  8. Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris

    Published: 9/16/2024
  9. The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis

    Published: 9/2/2024
  10. The Roman Emperor Nero

    Published: 8/26/2024
  11. Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe

    Published: 8/19/2024
  12. Zing Tsjeng on Swedish painter Hilma af Klint

    Published: 8/13/2024
  13. Miriam Margolyes on Charles Dickens

    Published: 8/5/2024
  14. Mary Portas on Anita Roddick

    Published: 5/27/2024
  15. Lady Rachel MacRobert, chosen by Hayaatun Sillem

    Published: 5/13/2024
  16. Queen Emma

    Published: 5/7/2024
  17. James Dyson on Frank Whittle

    Published: 4/29/2024
  18. Katherine Rundell on E Nesbit

    Published: 4/22/2024
  19. Antoni Gaudi

    Published: 4/15/2024
  20. Sir Bruce Forsyth

    Published: 4/8/2024

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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.